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> The vague questions I have - how would a nation with mostly elder population maintain the infrastructure, deal with increased need for palliative care, covera
by t-3 3y ago
> The vague questions I have - how would a nation with mostly elder population maintain the infrastructure, deal with increased need for palliative care, coverage of labour intensive jobs?
It would work just like now; old people keep working until they die and younger people can't get jobs because old people are taking all the work. The infrastructure doesn't get maintained, just like now, the palliative care is given only to the rich, just like now, hard labor is done with tools, just like now.
- kredd 3y agoI would say that's not really how things work nowadays in developed countries? Hard labour physically cannot be done by older people, caregivers cannot be the ones who also be other elder people, and infrastructure maintenance somewhat happens. I guess everything depends on where you live. I might be wrong from the casual observations and reads I've done, happy to be corrected.
- t-3 3y agoHard labor barely exists as a job, it's all done with machines. Go to a nursing home, the workers are sub-minimum wage high-school students, illegal immigrants, and... old people. Infrastructure maintenance is all done with machines. Also, not all old people are fragile grandmas who break their hips in a slight breeze, plenty are perfectly capable of doing any kind of work.